You can make serious pop, you know? There was a time when the best movies were the most popular, and I keep thinking that can happen again. John Cameron Mitchell Read Quote
I thought, ‘O.K., if I’m a valuable person and an independent entity, then I don’t have to worry about what people think of me. I can reach out now.’ John Cameron Mitchell Read Quote
If I wanted to make a lot of money with ‘Hedwig,’ I could have spent all my time on it. But that’s boring. John Cameron Mitchell Read Quote
The things that interest me are less to do with perhaps finding myself and more to do with surviving and mercy and forgiveness. John Cameron Mitchell Read Quote
I went to theater school at Northwestern, and I was quite conservative. Reagan at the time seemed quite revolutionary, or at least a rock star: He was radical and kind of punk rock. John Cameron Mitchell Read Quote
I realized that theater was the perfect thing for me, in short bursts of intense community building. John Cameron Mitchell Read Quote
Hedwig’ was born in ’94. I was thinking of a theater piece; Hedwig was one of the characters. John Cameron Mitchell Read Quote
I went to a very small Catholic school. It wasn’t an easy place to be growing up gay. John Cameron Mitchell Read Quote
I remember my girlfriend dropped me for the guy I thought was really cute. John Cameron Mitchell Read Quote
